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Bowles v. Ohio Dept. of Transp

Supreme Court of Ohio
Nov 13, 1991
579 N.E.2d 711 (Ohio 1991)

Summary

holding that a property owner's complaint alleging that the combination of ODOT's construction-related and repair-related road closures "[e]ffectively blocked access to plaintiffs' businesses from the general public and made access to said businesses virtually impossible from certain areas," was "sufficient to prevent a motion for judgment on the pleadings in favor of defendant"

Summary of this case from Smith v. Ohio Dep't of Transp.

Opinion

No. 90-1675

Submitted October 9, 1991 —

Decided November 13, 1991.

APPEAL from the Court of Appeals for Franklin County, No. 89AP-1426.

James H. Banks and Nina M. Najjar, for appellees.

Lee I. Fisher, Attorney General, Eric A. Walker and Simon Karas, for appellant.


The appeal is dismissed, sua sponte, as having been improvidently allowed.

The court orders that the court of appeals' opinion, 1990 WL 93883, not be published in the Ohio Official Reports, and that it may not be cited as authority except by the parties inter se.

SWEENEY, DOUGLAS, H. BROWN and RESNICK, JJ., concur.

MOYER, C.J., HOLMES and WRIGHT, JJ., dissent and would reverse the judgment of the court of appeals.


Summaries of

Bowles v. Ohio Dept. of Transp

Supreme Court of Ohio
Nov 13, 1991
579 N.E.2d 711 (Ohio 1991)

holding that a property owner's complaint alleging that the combination of ODOT's construction-related and repair-related road closures "[e]ffectively blocked access to plaintiffs' businesses from the general public and made access to said businesses virtually impossible from certain areas," was "sufficient to prevent a motion for judgment on the pleadings in favor of defendant"

Summary of this case from Smith v. Ohio Dep't of Transp.
Case details for

Bowles v. Ohio Dept. of Transp

Case Details

Full title:BOWLES ET AL., APPELLEES, v. OHIO DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, APPELLANT

Court:Supreme Court of Ohio

Date published: Nov 13, 1991

Citations

579 N.E.2d 711 (Ohio 1991)
579 N.E.2d 711

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